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Lisnahuaigh

Fairy fort / stone ringfort
Lisnahuaigh
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Lisnahuaigh is a fairy fort or stone ringfort in Knockbrack (leyny By.), County Sligo, Ireland. The circular cashel sits on a ridge with a diameter of about thirty metres and rises one to one point seven metres above external ground. A collapsed drystone wall revets the interior, reaches a maximum height of zero point seven five metres in parts, and surrounds dense bush growth. A man-made underground passage occupies the south-west quadrant.
On top of a ridge. A circular area (diam. c. 30m) raised c. 1-1.7m above the external ground level. The raised interior is revetted by a collapsed drystone wall (Wth 1.5-3.5m) which rises in parts to a maximum of 0.75m above the interior. The cashel is densely overgrown with bushes. There is a Man-made underground passage (SL036A003002-) in the SW quadrant. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

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